Lukashenko about using Shklov District as example: I want to show in which direction we should move
09.11.2026
SHKLOV DISTRICT (
BelTA) – During his working trip to Mogilev Oblast Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko explained why he is currently paying such close attention to the development of Shklov District and to creating a model for other regions on the basis of this district, BelTA has learned.
The head of state emphasized that the fact that this district is his home area is not the reason. But he knows everything in the district in detail, and therefore he can personally assess and oversee certain transformations.
Moreover, Shklov District is far from the first one which development Aleksandr Lukashenko has paid attention to as the president.
“If you dig deep, I did not start with my home area. I started with the Polesie area. And in Ostrovets District, when the nuclear power plant was being built, we poured billions of U.S. dollars into it. The southeast of Mogilev Oblast, Gomel Oblast,” he noted.
“Make people work. So that they are not timeservers. You, the young people, will work and I want to show you in which direction you should move,” the president said.
This requirement of the head of state applies in equal measure to the agricultural enterprise Govyady-Agro the president came to.
This time the topic of manageability of the enterprise was discussed in detail. Aleksandr Lukashenko also drew attention to it during his previous visit in September 2026. The thing is that four more agricultural enterprises that had previously operated separately from each other had been attached to this enterprise. At the same time, there were no section supervisors in the territories of the once separate agricultural enterprises that had been merged, which led to a loss of manageability.
It turned out that no one had been appointed to these positions, which drew fair criticism from the president. “You take too long to pick someone. It is unacceptably long. Tomorrow you have to sow, and before the sowing campaign you have to prepare both seeds and everything else. And the person in charge has to be up-to-date. This is why you need to work more actively,” the head of state set the task before Govyady-Agro CEO Aleksei Ladnov.
Aleksandr Lukashenko did not rule out that in the future it would be necessary to revise the structure of the division into production sections and their management. After all, the areas are huge, and it is difficult for one person to cope with the entire volume of tasks in a section and to ensure proper oversight over the work of people. “People are the key. It is a huge agricultural enterprise. You cannot visit every place every day. Once the sowing campaign starts, you will forget about the dairy complexes. But you have to come and take a look at the people. I am telling you that as a former director. People need to see you,” the president told the director of the enterprise. “If you come down to the ground, then people will appreciate and will understand you.”
While making the decision in favor of merging agricultural enterprises or vice versa, it is necessary to proceed from real life: if there is a need and if capabilities are available, then it is necessary to create large-scale commercial complexes there. But one should not abandon smaller ones either.
The financial and economic performance of the Govyady-Agro enterprise, where expenses still exceed revenues, was discussed in detail during the report to the president. A plan of concrete actions for the future was sketched out for the sake of financial recovery of the enterprise and for securing efficient operation. To implement it, production and technological discipline are needed above all, Aleksandr Lukashenko emphasized. He wants the director of the agricultural enterprise to demand strict discipline from the workers. And if someone fails to understand, the head of state recalled the practice of sending negligent workers to the army. “In order to secure iron discipline. This is my most stringent requirement,” the president emphasized. “Gather everyone and off you go. Like reinforced concrete. A worker collective needs discipline. And it is not even about the worker collective. It is about technology.”
Not only the director reported to the head of state on the ground about the work of the enterprise. Aleksandr Lukashenko also talked a lot to Yelena Mariutse, whose career had seen significant changes after the head of state’s visit in September 2026. Back then she managed the Govyady dairy complex, and now she was already held accountable to the president for the entire enterprise in the capacity of deputy director for animal husbandry.
Aleksandr Lukashenko familiarized himself with the work of the Chernoye dairy complex. A new nursery for calves had recently been built here. “A very good little barn. Moreover, built using the enterprise’s own resources. Well done,” the head of state noted.
The president was told that there are currently no problems with livestock deaths at the enterprise as a whole. Things seem to be in order, and the animals are kept in good conditions.
“You should always manage the things the way they are now. And make demands of personnel without looking at anyone,” Aleksandr Lukashenko said. “The key thing is that you have a responsible person here. Everything depends on the person, on the care. If there is order, if there is discipline, if the person does what the technology requires, then there will be a result.”
The president also went to the Govyady dairy complex, which he had visited in September. From the point of view of animal husbandry technology, everything here had been generally quite good back then as well, but there was no order on the premises, and the livestock buildings looked very “tired.” As Yelena Mariutse reported, a large volume of work has been completed over the past two months. In particular, the stall equipment and the roof have been repaired, the windows have been replaced, the concrete surface of the passages has been renewed, not to mention cosmetic repairs. A new nursery for calves is now being built at premises of the dairy complex. A new feed distributor has also appeared, which Aleksandr Lukashenko had promised to gift. Such equipment for feed distribution should be made available for all the major animal husbandry complexes, the president instructed.
Workers from enterprises of the city of Mogilev were brought in to help restore order. “Here is an example of how the city should help the countryside today,” the head of state noted. He gave instructions to definitely thank the worker collectives and the management of the enterprises on his behalf for the help rendered.
“I’ve done what I’ve promised to you,” Aleksandr Lukashenko told Yelena Mariutse. In turn, she sincerely, from the bottom of her heart thanked the president and said that 18 September is a double holiday for her now: her daughter’s birthday and the first arrival of the head of state at the Govyady dairy complex.
“What are you thanking me for? It is my job,” the head of state responded. “I sometimes start laughing at myself. I think that no other president in the world… Trump doesn’t do that.”
Since everything the president instructed and promised has been done, this dairy complex and the enterprise as a whole need to maintain the current standards and work must continue to secure better results. “Don’t let it slide. If you see that it has to be done this year, then you’d better die trying to accomplish it,” Aleksandr Lukashenko encouraged. He also recalled the main approach to supporting agriculture as a whole: to help only those who produce a return.
Among the priority tasks the president set for this enterprise and other agricultural organizations of Mogilev Oblast is the maximum involvement of land in agricultural use. “Starting with Mstislavl. Gorki, Shklov, Belynichi, Krugloye… Those have always been good lands, and here in Mogilev Oblast we need to take everything these lands can give,” the head of state said. He noted that large financial resources are allocated by the state budget for land reclamation while some land plots in this region remain untilled. Even if they are small, they still exist and they should be used wisely.
The president also stopped by the machine yard of the agricultural enterprise and examined the workshops where vehicles and equipment are repaired and serviced. “There will be no more harvesters and tractors for you [in the form of state support]. You have everything you need. Think for yourselves from now on,” the head of state encouraged independent development.
The head of state emphasized that the fact that this district is his home area is not the reason. But he knows everything in the district in detail, and therefore he can personally assess and oversee certain transformations.
Moreover, Shklov District is far from the first one which development Aleksandr Lukashenko has paid attention to as the president.
“If you dig deep, I did not start with my home area. I started with the Polesie area. And in Ostrovets District, when the nuclear power plant was being built, we poured billions of U.S. dollars into it. The southeast of Mogilev Oblast, Gomel Oblast,” he noted.
“Make people work. So that they are not timeservers. You, the young people, will work and I want to show you in which direction you should move,” the president said.
This requirement of the head of state applies in equal measure to the agricultural enterprise Govyady-Agro the president came to.
This time the topic of manageability of the enterprise was discussed in detail. Aleksandr Lukashenko also drew attention to it during his previous visit in September 2026. The thing is that four more agricultural enterprises that had previously operated separately from each other had been attached to this enterprise. At the same time, there were no section supervisors in the territories of the once separate agricultural enterprises that had been merged, which led to a loss of manageability.
It turned out that no one had been appointed to these positions, which drew fair criticism from the president. “You take too long to pick someone. It is unacceptably long. Tomorrow you have to sow, and before the sowing campaign you have to prepare both seeds and everything else. And the person in charge has to be up-to-date. This is why you need to work more actively,” the head of state set the task before Govyady-Agro CEO Aleksei Ladnov.
Aleksandr Lukashenko did not rule out that in the future it would be necessary to revise the structure of the division into production sections and their management. After all, the areas are huge, and it is difficult for one person to cope with the entire volume of tasks in a section and to ensure proper oversight over the work of people. “People are the key. It is a huge agricultural enterprise. You cannot visit every place every day. Once the sowing campaign starts, you will forget about the dairy complexes. But you have to come and take a look at the people. I am telling you that as a former director. People need to see you,” the president told the director of the enterprise. “If you come down to the ground, then people will appreciate and will understand you.”
While making the decision in favor of merging agricultural enterprises or vice versa, it is necessary to proceed from real life: if there is a need and if capabilities are available, then it is necessary to create large-scale commercial complexes there. But one should not abandon smaller ones either.
The financial and economic performance of the Govyady-Agro enterprise, where expenses still exceed revenues, was discussed in detail during the report to the president. A plan of concrete actions for the future was sketched out for the sake of financial recovery of the enterprise and for securing efficient operation. To implement it, production and technological discipline are needed above all, Aleksandr Lukashenko emphasized. He wants the director of the agricultural enterprise to demand strict discipline from the workers. And if someone fails to understand, the head of state recalled the practice of sending negligent workers to the army. “In order to secure iron discipline. This is my most stringent requirement,” the president emphasized. “Gather everyone and off you go. Like reinforced concrete. A worker collective needs discipline. And it is not even about the worker collective. It is about technology.”
Not only the director reported to the head of state on the ground about the work of the enterprise. Aleksandr Lukashenko also talked a lot to Yelena Mariutse, whose career had seen significant changes after the head of state’s visit in September 2026. Back then she managed the Govyady dairy complex, and now she was already held accountable to the president for the entire enterprise in the capacity of deputy director for animal husbandry.
Aleksandr Lukashenko familiarized himself with the work of the Chernoye dairy complex. A new nursery for calves had recently been built here. “A very good little barn. Moreover, built using the enterprise’s own resources. Well done,” the head of state noted.
The president was told that there are currently no problems with livestock deaths at the enterprise as a whole. Things seem to be in order, and the animals are kept in good conditions.
“You should always manage the things the way they are now. And make demands of personnel without looking at anyone,” Aleksandr Lukashenko said. “The key thing is that you have a responsible person here. Everything depends on the person, on the care. If there is order, if there is discipline, if the person does what the technology requires, then there will be a result.”
The president also went to the Govyady dairy complex, which he had visited in September. From the point of view of animal husbandry technology, everything here had been generally quite good back then as well, but there was no order on the premises, and the livestock buildings looked very “tired.” As Yelena Mariutse reported, a large volume of work has been completed over the past two months. In particular, the stall equipment and the roof have been repaired, the windows have been replaced, the concrete surface of the passages has been renewed, not to mention cosmetic repairs. A new nursery for calves is now being built at premises of the dairy complex. A new feed distributor has also appeared, which Aleksandr Lukashenko had promised to gift. Such equipment for feed distribution should be made available for all the major animal husbandry complexes, the president instructed.
Workers from enterprises of the city of Mogilev were brought in to help restore order. “Here is an example of how the city should help the countryside today,” the head of state noted. He gave instructions to definitely thank the worker collectives and the management of the enterprises on his behalf for the help rendered.
“I’ve done what I’ve promised to you,” Aleksandr Lukashenko told Yelena Mariutse. In turn, she sincerely, from the bottom of her heart thanked the president and said that 18 September is a double holiday for her now: her daughter’s birthday and the first arrival of the head of state at the Govyady dairy complex.
“What are you thanking me for? It is my job,” the head of state responded. “I sometimes start laughing at myself. I think that no other president in the world… Trump doesn’t do that.”
Since everything the president instructed and promised has been done, this dairy complex and the enterprise as a whole need to maintain the current standards and work must continue to secure better results. “Don’t let it slide. If you see that it has to be done this year, then you’d better die trying to accomplish it,” Aleksandr Lukashenko encouraged. He also recalled the main approach to supporting agriculture as a whole: to help only those who produce a return.
Among the priority tasks the president set for this enterprise and other agricultural organizations of Mogilev Oblast is the maximum involvement of land in agricultural use. “Starting with Mstislavl. Gorki, Shklov, Belynichi, Krugloye… Those have always been good lands, and here in Mogilev Oblast we need to take everything these lands can give,” the head of state said. He noted that large financial resources are allocated by the state budget for land reclamation while some land plots in this region remain untilled. Even if they are small, they still exist and they should be used wisely.
The president also stopped by the machine yard of the agricultural enterprise and examined the workshops where vehicles and equipment are repaired and serviced. “There will be no more harvesters and tractors for you [in the form of state support]. You have everything you need. Think for yourselves from now on,” the head of state encouraged independent development.